Quotes About Music

We are all an instrument with a special notation to our individual identity. When you incorporate many beautiful notes together, you envelop a harmonious orchestra.

There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.

With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.

The only two things in life that make it worth livin' / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women

The trouble with women in an orchestra is that if they're attractive it will upset my players and if they're not it will upset me.

Women and rhythm-section first!?

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

I feel I must fight for [my music], because I want women to turn their minds to big and difficult jobs; not just to go on hugging the shore, afraid to put out to sea.

I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.

People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive.

People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.

I was just born to swing, that's all.

I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.

There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be.

What Jimmy Page did was pretty inspiring for guitar players. He married a lot of acoustic elements into hard rock. The kind of chords he used were very left of center, with a lot of dissonance - I absorbed that like a sponge. It's all over the music I write, always.

Frank Ocean would be incredible; I'd love to be a sponge and absorb everything he says. Every song he puts out, I'm like, 'Why didn't I think of this?'

I learned things by being in Lester Flatts' band, and I learned things by playing with Johnny Cash, and I learned from Pop Staples. I'm a sponge.

I'd rather see us sponsor culture by pushing more money to music education, and facilities for your people to create music. It would be much more sane for cultural advancement then extending copyrights.

I was sponsored to go to the U.S. and became a Black Eyed Peas, and now I'm paying it forward and helping other children like me.

Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.

From his very first works, it was clear that Henri Sauguet would bring spontaneity, romance, and a nonacademic approach back to modern music.

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.